When undertaker John Harris was tasked with the reburial of the 3,300 skeletons that were discovered in 2015 by the Crossrail tunnellers under the site of the infamous Bedlam hospital at Liverpool Street station, he found there was no room left in London’s cemeteries. So, he did what any self-respecting East Ender does when they feel the capital has deserted them – he found a nice spot in Essex to rest his bones. “There isn’t the burial space in London, just like there isn’t the housing,” says Harris, the director of T Cribb and Sons, one of the oldest family-run funeral directors in east London. The plot he found for the Bedlam skeletons was in Willow cemetery on Canvey Island, reclaimed land in the Thames estuary. “In Essex, it gets cheaper to bury people, the same way it gets cheaper to buy a house.” When Crossrail opens it will further solidify Essex’s role as a commuter haven for London – the Oyster card’s zone of use has moved further east, now stretching to the hubs of Shenfield and Brentwood. But just as London’s reach has spread east, so too has the passage of London’s dead into Essex been a tradition… Read full this story
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